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Date: Sunday, 30th September 2018 Quiz: Chakravyuh 2018 Venue: College of Engineering, Pune Fest/Organized by: Mindspark 2018 QM: Vrushabh Gudade Flavour: General Results: 1. Pranav Pawar and Omkar Dhakephalkar (Open) 2. Srirang Raddi and Venkatesh Srinivasan (Open) 3. Arnabh Sengupta and Anirudh Anilkumar (AFMC) Other Finalists: (All Open) Gokul Panigrahi and Suryadipta Biswas Aman Shaikh and Omkar Joshi Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi and Charles Matthews A long overdue report, but better late than never.   The quiz started with standard delay of half and hour. This was further compounded by a ‘message from the sponsors’ who gave an in-depth analysis of IAS examinations. Because of course, that is what quizzers do. Give UPSC. After a what seemed an eon, the elims began. There was the usual smattering of college teams, a considerable crowd of first-time quizzers and participation certificate hunters and open teams. Missed on many more though. The...

Date - 20/05/2018 Set and conducted by Kunal Sawardekar Format - 25 question elims, 36 question finals Results First - Team 5 -  Aditya Gadre, Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman and Ranajeet Soman (draft) - 132.5 pts Second - Team 2 -  Rahul Kottalgi, Omkar Yarguddi, +1 - 80 pts Joint Third - Team 1 -  Aniket Khasgiwale, Venkatesh Srinivasan and Vibhendu Tewari (draft) & Team 4 -  Omkar Dhakephalkar, Pranav Pawar and Nadeem Ansari (draft)  - 75 pts Other Finalists  Anannya Deb (draft), + 2 Report Kunal told us that the elims would be fairly simple and displayed a lesser seen side of the Dunning-Kruger effect where people with superior ability in a task assume it is equally easy for others. To put it simply, the elims were not at all simple and the spectre of self-doubt was haunting every quizzer present after the first few questions because nobody seemed to be getting anything. This improved in the latter half and questions became accessible. In...

Set and conducted by Omkar Dhakephalkar Format - Written, 40 questions Flavour -  General Results:  1st: Aniket Khasgiwale and Venkat Srinivasan (not vcat) - 25.5 points 2nd: Rahul Kottalgi and Pratyush Jha - 23 points 3rd: Venkatraghavan S and Aditya Gadre - 22 points Omkar put together a great set of workoutable, interesting and accessible questions. The questions covered a wide range of topics. Also kudos to Omkar for crisp framing of the questions - it was very clear what exactly was required in each question. No negatives I can think of for the quiz - except that perhaps some questions might have been better used in a live passing setting than at a written quiz  

BC Cup 2018 Set by Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Yash Marathe Format: 30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. 60 question quarter to determine the top 4 for the semi finals. 40 question semi-final to determine the top 2. A 28 question final to determine the winner. Report The 10th edition of the BC Cup saw easily the strongest field we have ever seen at the BC Cup with at 6 past winners and general studs travelling from all over the place for the quiz. The elims were a bit easier than previous years and thus high scoring. Prithwish top scored with a phenomenal 21 out of 30 and Deepanjan was close behind with 20.5 points. The cut off was 14.5 and some very good sports quizzers just missed out with 12 to 14 points. This included former winners Ramkey and Shrirang, Venky, Souvikda, a regular quarterfinalists Shubhankar, Kaushik et al  The Quarter Finals The top 8 in the quarter finals were: Prithwish Datta, Deepanjan Deb, Venkatraghavan S (Ingit Sir...

Date: Saturday, 28 April 2018 Quiz: The BCQC April Open 2018 Venue: AFMC, Pune Fest/Organized by: BCQC QM(s): Charles Matthew, Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi Flavour: Gen Results: 1. Team 5 [145 Pts.]: Arnabh Sengupta, Rohan Setlur (AFMC) + Akshay Parale (Draft, COEP) 2. Team 1 [139.5 Pts.]: Aditya Gadre, Ranajeet Soman + Nikhil Nair (Draft, AFMC) 3. Team 2 [120.5 Pts.]: Pranav Pawar, Omkar Dhakephalkar + Aman Shaikh (Draft) Other Finalists: Omkar Yarguddi (Solo) + Gokul Panigrahi, Suryadipta Biswas (Drafts) PavanKumar, Ruturaj (AFMC) + Aditya Lewis (Draft, AFMC) Kumal Sawardekar, Arnold D’Souza The quiz set by Pranav 'Floyd' Joshi and Charles Matthew was a fun experience. It had a 25 question Elims followed by a Final with 20 questions on IR, 11 questions Written and 1 List It! Team 1 started well in the first Written Round but never found their footing in the Infinite Bounce Rounds with Team 2 building a lead. Team 1 made a late surge by...

Date: Saturday, 7 April 2018 Quiz: Quiztronomy 2018 Venue: College of Engineering, Pune Fest/Organized by: COEP Astronomy Club QM(s): Siddharth G, Nimish, Daivanti Flavour: Astronomy Results: 1. Rohit Dhanorkar (SeamEdu Baner, Solo) 2. Nikita Bhakre, Aditya (ILS Law College, Pune) 3. Samarth, Shreyas (MIT, Pune) (Won tie-breaker) Other Finalists: Sarang Vandana and Prayag Gore (Jyotirvidya Parisanstha, Open) (Lost tie-breaker) Pooja, Mohan (Jyotirvidya Parisanstha, Open) Anirudh Anilkumar and Arnabh Sengupta (AFMC) 7th of April saw us making our way to COEP for the annual Astronomy Quiz by (you guessed it), its astronomy club. Greeted by familiar faces of usual suspects, we sat down for the prelims which was a heady mix of know-it-or-you-don’t questions and some basic astronomy most people encounter in life (or if you were googling on the ride to the venue). The prelims were aced by an astronomical margin by a Lupus Solus, and the usual su...